The Inquisitor thought long and hard, her expression all but warped into a picture of narrow-eyed suspicion and focus as she undoubtedly tried to figure out what question she could ask would grant her the most information about me, my goals and the threat I posed. I also didn’t doubt that she was dubious at best about my claim at being truthful with her, and for good reason. I had no intention of giving her any answers that would be of much use to her, not after she had answered my question...
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“Uuuuurghh,” Mia groaned, eyes fluttering open, then shutting closed as the ...
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Infuriatingly, no one dared to ask the question I could almost taste hanging over them all. The bunch of cowards. I considered puppeteering one of them to ask it, even without my telepathy, I could do that much just by manually controlling a human body with a swarm of invading strings of my eldritch flesh.
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“Well, that was fucking anticlimactic,” Avery said, kicking a hardened slag of something dark...
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High rolling hills covered in verdant green forests spread as far as the eye could see, some sowed lingering sins of having sported vibrant flowers just a week ago, but most have long shed their spring looks. I stood up on a mountaintop, one of the smaller ones near where the two groups were converging in the valley below.
Looking around, one might mistake the scenery to be one back on Earth until they looked closer. The trees were strange, their trunks more groups petrified vines...
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Mia felt slightly startled at the surety with which that last thought came. Duty. She never real...
2024-12-02 17:00:19 +0000 UTC
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Before jumping at the rail gun, a thought popped into my head that had my curiosity in thrall: what would that pulse rifle do to a human?
Thankfully, that was a rather easy thing to test, and the answer was quite predictable honestly. Humans had even less natural defences than a humble ripper, so the plasma bolt went right through. When I switched over to the quick-fire mode that shot bolts about a tenth as powerful as the big ones — with the added benefit of shooting them in full aut...
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A few minutes earlier.
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“The white fly-thing left skull-boss...
2024-11-29 17:00:18 +0000 UTC
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“If it works, it works,” I said, staring at my newest creation. “I guess?”
They only had a few hours, a day and some change to be a touch more specific, to be put together. For anyone else, expecting even just a half-working prototype in a little over a day for a new research or experiment would be outrageous.
But what can I say, I was outrageous in many ways, most of them good. I think.
Anyway! The fact of the matter was that I had managed to get...
2024-11-27 17:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Not long after Mia’d seen Mark off, now wearing a helmet with a peculiarly shaped attachment atop it...
2024-11-25 17:00:22 +0000 UTC
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Something was wrong with this planet, something deeply unsettling that sat thick in the air and sent shivers down Ciaphas Cain’s spine. Ever since that assault on the cafe and his near-miraculous survival of it, he had been wrestling with a deep sense of foreboding.
The people of the towns they had rode through spoke of superhuman warriors clad in all white, of terrorists and criminals who stood up to them getting slaughtered like helpless children, and of the myriads of theories they...
2024-11-23 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Mia didn’t know what to expect. Chaos maybe, wild panic with refugees streaming through looking pale a...
2024-11-22 17:00:19 +0000 UTC
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‘We may have a problem.’ Selene’s voice buzzed in my ears and I sat up straighter, ignoring the soldiers rushing about to pack their stuff for a moment.
‘Yes?’ I said. ‘What’s up?’
‘Well,’ Selene drew the word out, sounding hesitant. ‘It seems we might want to reconsider the initial plans. Whether they did it by themselves, or if there are some cultists influencing the media … the citizens kind of loathe us … or rat...
2024-11-20 17:00:20 +0000 UTC
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“Is this about the idiots trying to lynch a random beastkin that we beat up?” M...
2024-11-18 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Ciaphas Cain was old. Rejuvenation treatment after rejuvenation treatment had seen to that he lived so long he could barely even recall his home planet.
The dark tunnels of the far-off hive world, and the tunnel-rats senses they had gifted him were the only mementos he had.
Centuries had gone by since he first stepped foot on the Schola’s grounds, and sometimes he still wondered about the sheer impossibility of it all. He was still alive, despite time and ev...
2024-11-16 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Mia somewhat regretted not having her Familiar summoned, but she could only lament her lack of foresight...
2024-11-15 17:00:18 +0000 UTC
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UPLOAD SCHEDULE CHANGE! (Sorry in advance)
Well, all things come to an end, and so did my initial burst of inspiration for this story. For the first few months, I'd been writing five or six chapters a week, but now I can barely manage one or two. I'm not burnt out, per se, but I just can't find that same boundless motivation it in myself to keep that pace up, not as things stand. I'm also writing another story at the side, which I also write two 2.3k word chapters per week for, which wh...
2024-11-13 17:00:17 +0000 UTC
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I knew exactly where the jammer was; I felt each living being around me for hundreds of metres with pinpoint accuracy even with my aura loose and unfocused. Still, I acted like I didn’t. It was more fun that way.
Never in my life would I have thought there would come a day when my concept of ‘fun’ included fighting a band of deluded lunatics armed with zealous idiocy and guns. Alas, my life was as far from what it had been just a few months ago as heaven was from earth.
A br...
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Mia opened her mouth to answer, but found her voice failing her fo...
2024-11-11 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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People screaming in terror and the scent of burning flesh greeted me as I swapped places with my drone. With the other places now under control, I could handle over-watch even while playing around with Cain.
I pulled the memories my drone kept into my mind and quickly ran through them, processing them all in a matter of half a second. Then, I was up to speed on everything and my mask of a frightened damsel in distress slipped on.
At least my drone didn't overplay it, e...
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Zeigler took in a deep breath, then grabbed his mug filled with hot...
2024-11-08 17:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Well. Shit. Mia thought, instinctively tightening her gri...
2024-11-06 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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I stood with my arms crossed, not quite tapping my feet, but having to suppress the urge to as I stared down at my conversation partner.
“Are you … apologising?” Valenith looked at me dubiously, a hint of disbelief hanging off his every word.
Am I? I thought, scrunching up my nose at him for a moment. I was supposed to be some dignified divine entity to him, I think, would he really take it well if I just apologised straight up? Practically admitting I was fal...
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Unfortunately, having the group of high leveled Boarkin ente...
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Commissar Caiphas Cain was a lauded Hero of the Imperium. One of, if not the most famous and influential one currently alive. Imperial propaganda had spread word of his deeds far and wide, and for good reason. For a man who had only his chainsword, laspistol and charisma to rely on, he had survived some encounters Astartes would have fallen in.
He was also suffering from a severe case of impostor syndrome, a result of his entire carrier being built upon the ‘fake it till you make it...
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The arid wind sending a mouthful of hot sand into her mouth and ey...
2024-11-01 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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“Understand the world around you, the people under your command and your enemies. If you do, you will have the fundamental information needed to form viable plans as a leader.”
It sounded simple, reasonable and made perfect sense. Which was why I couldn’t even refute it. Selene was right, and I knew it.
The part that bothered me still was where she said I never accepted this 42nd millennium Milky Way for how it is …. Because who would want to accept this shithole for...
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“Doable,” Mia said, earning an incredulous look from her mothe...
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Mia glanced askance at the redhead swinging her long, leather-clad...
2024-10-28 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“A. Few. Hundred?” I asked slowly, trying not to sound like I was ready to smack Val into the nearest sun if I didn’t like his next few words.
I felt a hint of hypocrisy in getting mad over him, calling the death of a few hundred civilians as a ‘tiny’ collateral damage. I had destroyed voidships with tens of thousands on board, but there was one distinct difference between the two instances.
The voidships were manned by soldiers and their loyal servants. The civilians Va...
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